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Wow... the great Google has redefined how to piss off their publishers. I have used adMob for all of a few weeks on my mobile apps, and my account gets canned for supposed "invalid activity" and my appeal gets instantly rejected. No evidence was presented of my supposed wrong-doing, and apparently, no attempt to get my account reinstated will be heard. Zero tolerance, of what... I have no idea. I did not purchase any sort of shady services to generate clicks, and basically displayed a simple banner ad at the bottom of my app. At the point they dropped my account, I had generated all of $9.70 in revenue, and about 50 clicks. Wow... I must have been majorly scamming them, to make that sort of bank.

For those developers considering adMob as a source of revenue... reconsider. Any network that treats publishers the way adMob does should be shunned. They get away with it because they are the largest, but when I Google (heh) around about adMob, I see a disturbing number of stories of account closures...